Not many parents have the luxury of home schooling either. It takes a parent who is home all day with their child. In many cases parents work outside the home.
DR has had a completely clean teaching record for many years, has given DNA, has taken (with presumeably no problem) a LDT, and has been interviewed several times w/o being charged. What happens if someone else is hired to take his job, and he's assigned to menial tasks, then no evidence is found? Will a court of opinion still prevent him from doing his job for the rest of the year?
DR has taught the same children for years, and not one child has accused him of anything inappropriate. I see this as a lawsuit just waiting to happen, a lawsuit that could cost the district heavily. Are parents willing to underwrite a panic cost in the form of higher taxes?
Text in quote bolded, italicized and colored with great respect by me, for the sake of clarity.
Its that word "presumably" in the above quote that has me riled up. I'd like to point out that here in Ontario, our Employment Standards Act states clearly that, " No person shall disclose to an employer that an employee has taken a lie detector test or disclose to an employer the results of a lie detector test taken by an employee. 2000, c. 41, s. 70 (2)".
Here is the link in case you're interested:
http://www.e-laws.gov.on.ca/html/statutes/english/elaws_statutes_00e41_e.htm#BK112.
So with
that in mind, its
possible (if the laws out there are the same as those here), that he actually showed deception on his LDT, and that his employer (the School Board) is unaware of official test results. Its possible that they only have DR's word for it, and if so, then how can anyone be sure he was upfront and honest about his results? DR could well have been
told he passed, when infact, his responses may have given rise to LE concerns of stress and deception over certain questions and responses. Unless LE provided results directly to the employer, how would they
know it?
For that matter, did police ever state officially that the LDT was clear and showed no signs of deception? I don't recall hearing an official statement (or reading one) on this issue from LE, or anyone else besides DR and possibly his family. His own admission that he took an LDT and passed is simply not good enough for me! I'll believe
that when LE or someone in the legal system (eg: a lawyer) states it. Out here, police cannot even provide the child welfare agencies with a criminal record check on someone involved with child welfare services, unless they have written consent from the person to do so! As a result, even when a child welfare worker demands a criminal record check on someone involved in an open file, the person must apply for it themselves, and forward it themselves to the child welfare agency. Police cannot do so without a major breech of confidentiality! I suspect that there are similar issues of confidentiality involved in this case as well, which likely preclude police from making the official LDT results public.
And while I'm at it, I will also point out that LDT results are NOT admissible in court as evidence here in Ontario. However, police use these because they
can use any statements you make during the test as evidence against you! The use of and results from LDTS are rather
unreliable, which is
why the results of which are not admissible in court!
I'm sorry, but for me, even
if the LDT indicated he was innocent, its not quite enough for me to be satisfied of his innocence, considering that they are unreliable, and given that they cannot be used in our courts to convict someone!
I'm not saying he is guilty either for that matter!! He very well could be completely innocent, and if so, without something to confirm his innocence, he is really euchred! I don't see exactly how LE will ever formally clear him in the absence of a reliable alibi, unless DNA evidence confirms someone else is responsible, or unless someone else confesses to this crime, and his/her guilt can be somehow prooven!! Its a hard situation for him to be in, undoubtedly!! I sincerely hope that somehow LE finds a way to clear him if he is indeed innocent of any involvement and all knowledge of the crime!! But in the meantime, I'm sorry, but I'm not satisfied by an LDT that he
presumably passed.
